Illinois changed the requirements since I graduated from law school (over a decade ago) such that I now have to have a certain number of CLE courses (Continuing Legal Education) courses. When you are in a firm, they have a person who hounds you basically to make sure you keep up with your state’s requirements. [...]
New show on the WE channel (i.e. the channel I NEVER watch). It’s about a private detective who tracks down lost families and whatnot. Looks very sappy. Will probably have to watch it.
Was watching the SCAN-DC list tonight explode with a police officer shot. Cops were on the scene in moments and they chased the guy upto the 14th Street Bridge in DC. There is live audio from the scanner buffs in Virginia (who record pretty much everything that goes on in the DC area). Apparently the [...]
Police were justified when they shot and killed two dogs during a July drug raid at the home of Mayor Cheye Calvo according to an internal review by the police. “They had a legitimate court order to be there,” he said. “Unfortunately we had to engage the animals, but that engagement was justified.” …a scientific [...]
Mayor Nagin has decided that anyone caught looting will be sent to the Louisiana State Penitentary in Angola, one of the most notorious prisons in the country. “You will not get a pass this time. Anyone caught looting in New Orleans will go directly to the Big House in the general population. You will go [...]
If you drive in DC, your license plate will be read by automated cameras and license plate readers, coming very soon. DC Parking control has been using these things for years to get tows and boots on scofflaws, but now the DCPD is going to start using them to look for terrorists. The new project [...]
Sorry, I just was feeling a bit poetic about the Unibomber demanding to get his one room shack back from the FBI, which has put it ‘on loan’ with the Newseum in Washington, DC. Maybe he just wants a cut of the entrance fee royalty charged by the Newseum ($20 or so).
Ok, so what’s the point? They had a trial, he was found guilty, but now the Pentagon is saying even after he serves his ‘debt to society’ he will considered an enemy combatant and sent to some place like Guantanamo indefinitely. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said after the verdict Wednesday that Hamdan was now a [...]
Despite being surrounded by some of the first communities in the country to get FIOS, and a relatively dense population core crying out for FIOS to be rolled out in the District proper, Verizon was dragging their feet for the last few years about rolling out the high speed service to DC residents. Well that [...]
There is no statute of limitations on murder, so police will be showing up at the Bowie High School’s Class of 1973 to talk about the night one of their graduates disappeared, only later to be found in a local swamp. Donna Dustin was celebrating her recent graduation when things turned a bit ugly. The [...]
Police in Maryland have arrested the deliveryman in the SWAT team radio on a Maryland mayor’s house. Police broke down the door of the mayor’s home, shot his dogs, and held the mayor and his wife as ‘persons of interest’ after a 32lb box of pot was intercepted by drug sniffing dogs in transit. Police [...]
The Houston Chronicle has pretty interesting article about the Texas execution of Jose Medellin for the rape and murder of two girls in Texas in 1993. Most of Mexico right now is focused on the kidnapping of 14-year-old Fernando Marti, so much so that the execution was almost a distraction, while in Europe and in [...]
Collin McKenzie-Gude was arrested the other day with a bunch of assault rifles and the names and addresses of some teachers at his school. Nothing out of the ordinary in the world of the trenchcoat mafia (in fact trenchcoat.com is already talking about him). But today it took a bit of a weirder turn. Police [...]
Aafia Siddiqui, FBI Terrorist, MIT Grad, or matronly mother of three extraordinarily ‘renditioned’ to some remote place deep and forgotten, has now been found apparently, wandering about in Afghanistan and taking a shot some US officials (who shot back, wounding her). She’s now going to be extradited to the US on a slew of terrorism [...]
‘Save the animals kill the humans’ morons in California launched a couple molotov cocktails on steroids over the weekend. The first destroyed a car, the second a professor’s home. One of the professors, his wife, and 6 and 7-year-old children had to flee their burning house via an emergency ladder. Police were expecting something like [...]
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